Three ways to make meals more efficient

8:53 PM,
Oct. 17, 2013

Planning meals and grocery lists in advance can make dinner preparation less stressful.

Written by

Mridu Parikh
www.lifeisorganized.com

Three o'clock every day ... that's when it would happen. Quick flashes of what I might have in the fridge or freezer to make for dinner.

By 4 p.m., reality hit that I didn't have enough of anything to pull together a nutritious meal for my family.

By 5 p.m., complete panic would set in. I'd be scanning the pantry, the fridge, the freezer (then back to the pantry), hoping that, miraculously, an idea and the perfect ingredients would pop up in front of me. ...